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Flight mode sucks down battery

I work on a ship so when I go to work I turn on flight mode or just turn off the phone so the battery doesn't run down searching for a signal all day. But it's just as bad in flight mode and it's been the same with multiple roms. Has anyone else had this problem?
Like If I leave it at home with the phone on, the battery will last for days but if I turn on flight mode it will run out in a few hours. I'm currently running opentouch project rom but it's been the same with 3 different roms.

This seems to be a problem even with the other htc devices. Simple solution is to do a "Soft Reset" each time you disable the cellular/radio, kills all background applications.
Takes 2 minutes, and battery will last for another week if using it as an alarm clock.

atlaswing said:
This seems to be a problem even with the other htc devices. Simple solution is to do a "Soft Reset" each time you disable the cellular/radio, kills all background applications.
Takes 2 minutes, and battery will last for another week if using it as an alarm clock.
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I guess I'll give the soft reset a try, I wish there was an easier fix. It'll become a pain to turn it off and soft reset on my way in to work and then turn it on and soft reset on my way home every day.
Thanks for the info though.

bigsquid said:
I guess I'll give the soft reset a try, I wish there was an easier fix. It'll become a pain to turn it off and soft reset on my way in to work and then turn it on and soft reset on my way home every day.
Thanks for the info though.
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The soft reset should only be required for turning ON flight mode. When you head home, just turn off flight mode and it should regain its signal automatically.

My hero is locked

I have screen unlock pattern. I put it wrong several times, Now I got an option to unlock the phone by signing in with gmail credentials. I did several times but it is not accepting it. I'm sure that i put the correct credentials.
Any Help Please,

What's it asking for now?

google account: username and password

try @googlemail.com and not @gmail.com or visa-versa maybe ??
Assuming you've not already.

joemax said:
try @googlemail.com and not @gmail.com or visa-versa maybe ??
Assuming you've not already.
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i tryed both ways, nothing is working; thanks anyway

Where'd you get the phone from?

tatwamasi said:
Where'd you get the phone from?
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why don't u try a hardreset?

deeren said:
why don't u try a hardreset?
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Because My phone's working fine..?

Hmmm... I think I just found a way to really screw up your phone... let's see what you think of my theory:
1. Put your phone into Airplane mode. This will completly turn off all the radios in the phone.
2. Go into settings and set an unlock pattern.
3. Put your phone into standby mode and turn it back on.
4. If you use up all of your tries at the unlocḱ screen you will have to enter your login details to unlock it. BUT THE PHONE IS STILL IN AIRPLANE MODE. Hence, the phone will not be able to connect to Googles servers for verification. And the worst thing is that not even a shut down of the phone will remove the airplane mode. Not even a removal of the battery.
THe only way to get out of this is to do a hardware reset of the phone.
What do you this of this?

deeren said:
why don't u try a hardreset?
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I guess this is the only solution, I did a hardreset.
but this is a very very dangerous bug in the operating system.

Thiesen said:
Hmmm... I think I just found a way to really screw up your phone... let's see what you think of my theory:
1. Put your phone into Airplane mode. This will completly turn off all the radios in the phone.
2. Go into settings and set an unlock pattern.
3. Put your phone into standby mode and turn it back on.
4. If you use up all of your tries at the unlocḱ screen you will have to enter your login details to unlock it. BUT THE PHONE IS STILL IN AIRPLANE MODE. Hence, the phone will not be able to connect to Googles servers for verification. And the worst thing is that not even a shut down of the phone will remove the airplane mode. Not even a removal of the battery.
THe only way to get out of this is to do a hardware reset of the phone.
What do you this of this?
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at any time you can click and hold the reject call/power off button and it will bring you a list of options one of them is turning off airplane mode

Go on your computer and reset your Gmail password. then try again. It should do the trick.

adel2adel said:
at any time you can click and hold the reject call/power off button and it will bring you a list of options one of them is turning off airplane mode
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And there fell my theory. Now I can sleep well knowing Google thought about that too...

adel2adel said:
but this is a very very dangerous bug in the operating system.
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How so? If you have synched everything with google then everything comes straight back..
Damn annoying, but hardly dangerous!

Airplane Mode - Is there one on HD2?

Noob here . Is there an 'Airplane Mode' on the HD2 please? Can't seem to see one anywhere if there is.
Thanks.

Start-Settings- Wireless Controls-Airplane Mode.

Yes, just go into the comm manager and switch on airplane mode

TomH01 said:
Start-Settings- Wireless Controls-Airplane Mode.
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Tapping the top bar an then the signal icon is much faster than going through settings

Good one, I didn't know that.

Ahh, great. Thanks All.

the only annoying thing is that you have to enter your pin everytime you switch back to phone mode. is that related to winmo?

d3l1 said:
the only annoying thing is that you have to enter your pin everytime you switch back to phone mode. is that related to winmo?
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I don't have to.

d3l1 said:
the only annoying thing is that you have to enter your pin everytime you switch back to phone mode. is that related to winmo?
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It's related to the fact you are turning your phone on, and you have your SIM card set to ask for PIN. So simply turn it off if you don't like it.

freyberry said:
Tapping the top bar an then the signal icon is much faster than going through settings
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i have a quick launch button to comm. manager on today

most airlines still wont let you use the phone so this mode is kind of pointless.
hopfully by the time i go to florida at xmas virgin airlines will have relaxed a bit

Holding Down the Power Button

I just noticed when holding down the power button there are a few options I've never seen before.
Power Off
Silent Mode
Save to Existing
Airplane Mode
2
I'm curious what the save to existing and "2" options are for.. any ideas?

Clipt said:
I just noticed when holding down the power button there are a few options I've never seen before.
Power Off
Silent Mode
Save to Existing
Airplane Mode
2
I'm curious what the save to existing and "2" options are for.. any ideas?
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hum, i have some options but not what you have....
Power Off
Silent mode
Vibration mode
Airplane mode
Mobile network

I'm curious if there's an app I installed that made these options come up... I'm on the fresh Rom if that helps
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

Clipt said:
I'm curious if there's an app I installed that made these options come up... I'm on the fresh Rom if that helps
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
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LOL, it's a rom that you've installed that made those come up, i'm wagering...
i think he got rid of the mobile network in that ROM, which explains the '2'. probably something similar going on with 'save to existing' (something pointing to mismatched address somewhere)

makes sense. thanks for the input

only one way to find out what they do!

Clipt said:
I just noticed when holding down the power button there are a few options I've never seen before.
Power Off
Silent Mode
Save to Existing
Airplane Mode
2
I'm curious what the save to existing and "2" options are for.. any ideas?
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The issue is caused if you flashed the Vanilla Lock Screen. Fresh states the issue on his site.
http://geekfor.me/evo/21/vanilla-lock-fix-for-evo/
Under the first paragraph.

[Q] Screen won't turn off

For some reason my screen won't shut off when I press the power button or by itself after any amount of time. I made sure all of the settings were set right that might keep it on. I know it's not hardware damage because I've pretty much never dropped it or handled it hard. The power button still works because it will get the turn off, restart, etc screen to go. Any idea how to fix it? I already did a factory reset.

JollyGreen527 said:
For some reason my screen won't shut off when I press the power button or by itself after any amount of time. I made sure all of the settings were set right that might keep it on. I know it's not hardware damage because I've pretty much never dropped it or handled it hard. The power button still works because it will get the turn off, restart, etc screen to go. Any idea how to fix it? I already did a factory reset.
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Dial *#0*# check some test for dimming, sleep etc.

JollyGreen527 said:
For some reason my screen won't shut off when I press the power button or by itself after any amount of time. I made sure all of the settings were set right that might keep it on. I know it's not hardware damage because I've pretty much never dropped it or handled it hard. The power button still works because it will get the turn off, restart, etc screen to go. Any idea how to fix it? I already did a factory reset.
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Download wakelock detector and see which app is keeping your screen on.

Dialed that number, the dimming worked, but the sleep button didn't do anything. I'll try that app out and see what it says.

In my understanding *#0*# dialing is for hardware check, if sleep is not working from there means it has nothing to do with any app & better to take to service centre.
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It didn't do it until after I tried to change my boot screen. Know if that would do anything? No boot animations go off besides the galaxy note 3 one (no Tmobile or samsung animation, and no shut off animation). I also rooted it so would they still help me even though the knox counter is 0x1?

Any help? Using the wakelock app it says that system manager application is used a lot more than anything else. Not sure what it does.

JollyGreen527 said:
It didn't do it until after I tried to change my boot screen. Know if that would do anything? No boot animations go off besides the galaxy note 3 one (no Tmobile or samsung animation, and no shut off animation). I also rooted it so would they still help me even though the knox counter is 0x1?
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Try to flash complete stock ROM & clear Data & Catch before & after flashing from recovery may HELP.

That fixed it. I'm not sure why I didn't already try that since it seems kinda obvious. Don't know what made it do that though. Do you happen to know if modifying the boot animations can mess other things up?

Mine its not rooted still stock and all of the sudden started acting up with the screen ....i did the *# test and when i went to sleep it went straight to the lock screen ...any idea what could cause it

help
JollyGreen527 said:
That fixed it. I'm not sure why I didn't already try that since it seems kinda obvious. Don't know what made it do that though. Do you happen to know if modifying the boot animations can mess other things up?
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how do you do that cause I'm having same problem s

scooby 777 said:
how do you do that cause I'm having same problem s
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Mine does this every time I reboot my phone. I have to press and hold the home key, pick the pie chart, pick RAM and pick "Clear Memory". Then it's fine til the next time I reboot.

I had my note 3 with the same problem and solved it recovering the original system/media/bootsamsung*.qmg files.

to solve the problem plug the charger and unplug it immediately and plug it back in again. This is also the reason why the problem is caused. So doing it again will solve the problem.